Google’s YouTube said it would obey Australia’s world-leading ban on social media accounts for children under 16, a capitulation which means all the most popular platforms with young users have agreed ...

Social media has become inexorably intertwined with our daily lives, but not all platforms are equally popular. For every cultural phenomenon like TikTok, there’s a Mastodon. It would be easy, based ...

Pew’s data shows YouTube and Facebook lead U.S. social media use, while TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp and Reddit grow and newer platforms remain niche. YouTube and Facebook are still the core channels ...

Disney programming has started to be restored to YouTube TV subscribers. The Walt Disney Company and YouTube TV have reached a multi-year distribution agreement that will restore ABC, ESPN and other ...

The weeks-long streaming stalemate between YouTube TV and Disney is finally over, with the two sides reaching a deal Friday evening. With the deal now in place, Disney-owned channels like ESPN and ABC ...

Disney and YouTube TV reached a new deal to bring channels like ABC and ESPN back to the Google-owned live streaming platform Friday, ending a blackout for customers that dragged on for about two ...

This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on YouTube, but now YouTube is denying that odd removals ...

Editor's Note: The YouTube outage has now been resolved. Read an update on Thursday, Oct. 16. YouTube experienced technical difficulties on Wednesday, Oct. 15, with hundreds of thousands of users ...

Hundreds of thousands of users reported issues with YouTube on Wednesday, according to Downdetector. Users flocked to X to air out their grievances, as well as looking for answers as to why they ...

The new program appears to follow a promise to Congress to reinstate creators who were banned for violating its COVID-19 or election integrity policies. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Some YouTube ...

YouTube on Thursday will begin offering previously banned users the opportunity to create new accounts and potentially re-publish some videos that may have contributed to their termination but no ...

AI platforms overwhelmingly cite YouTube, while rivals like TikTok, Vimeo and Twitch barely register in search results, new data shows. YouTube is cited 200x more than any other video platform in AI ...